Smoked Fish

I chose to collect cigarette butts, a cigarette box, beads, a metal bottle cap, and a foam disposable plate to create my project. The fish is made up of cigarette butts and other unnecessary things that end up in our ocean because people do not simply dispose of it in a trash can and an ash pit. I believe that if a person is going to smoke, they should be responsible of disposing their used cigarette in an ash pit. I also noticed that there are not that many ash pits as there are trash cans in the beach and even in cities. You cannot force people to stop smoking. Therefore, we should make it easier for them to dispose of their cigarettes. Putting ash pits next to trash cans would be beneficial to our oceans and to the cleanliness of our cities. The cigarettes people smoke and throw on the floor are washed out into the ocean and cause pollution from all the chemicals in them. Fish and even birds may mistake the cigarettes or small parts of it for food and eat them. Then, we catch the fish, cook them, and feed them to our families. Imagine all the chemicals we are consuming by eating the fish: chemicals from the cigarettes and chemicals from other pollutants that end up in our ocean.